A Model for Strategic Vendor Selection under Fuzzy Environment

摘要：

During recent years, how to determine suitable suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. However, the nature of these decisions usually is complex and unstructured. (1)It involves an evaluation of multiple attributes, and moreover qualitative attributes are often accompanied by certain ambiguities and vagueness. (2)One drawback of the widely used approaches is the assumption of independency among various criteria of decision-making. In this article, a fuzzy ANP approach was proposed to overcome the vagueness in preferences and the improper assumption of independency among various criteria. The method adopted uses triangular fuzzy numbers for pair-wise comparison and applies extent analysis to determine the weights for various attributes. An illuslrative example is used to explore the application of the fuzzy ANP methodology to this problem.

关键词： analytical network process(ANP) vendor selection MCDM fuzzy set

作者: Zhong-hua Yang Zhi-Qing Zhang Jing Tu

作者单位: School of management, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, P.R.China College of management, H School of management, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, P.R.China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第八届武汉电子商务国际会议(The Eighth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 665-672

在线出版日期: 2009-05-30（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）